mbidell@hunter.cuny.edu
212 772-4714
1114 West

Dr. Bidell is an Associate Professor in the School Counselor Education Program at Hunter College with over a decade of experience as a counselor educator.  He holds a Permanent Certification in School Counseling from the New York State Education Department.  He earned his master’s degree in Community Counseling at Sonoma State University and his doctorate degree is in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Dr. Bidell is a contributor to and member of the American Counseling Association, American School Counselor Association, North Atlantic Regional Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, New York State School Counselor Association, and the Counselor Educators Metro Consortium.  Previously he was a counselor educator in the CACREP-accredited counseling programs at the University of New Mexico and San Francisco State University.

Dr. Bidell worked as a school counselor with at-risk youth in the Albuquerque Public School District.  He was a school counseling consultant at the Rio Rancho Public School District helping to evaluate their U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free School grant to reduce school violence and tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.  He also developed a school counseling program and internship at the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center Public School.  Currently, he is the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Homeless Youth Counseling Services Liaison at MCC-New York Charities.  Dr. Bidell was awarded a 2010 George N. Shuster Faculty Fellowship to conduct an educational, emotional, and vocational needs assessment of LGBT homeless youth in New York City.

Teaching

Professor Bidell teaches core theoretical and applied field-based counseling courses focusing on students’ ability to deliver competent, professional, ethical, and multiculturally aware services to a diverse range of students and clients.  Utilizing the American School Counselor Association/ASCA National Model©, he highlights the role of school counselors as professionals that employ leadership, advocacy, and collaboration to effect systemic changes that facilitate a safe and supportive school environment, which in turn improves the academic, emotional, and social lives of students.  At Hunter College, he suggested the adaptation of the Video Analysis of Teaching program to Counseling. The Video Analysis of Counseling provides a web-based platform for students to upload digitally formatted clips of their counseling work and assess their counseling skills using a state-of-the-art micro-skill assessment system.  In addition, Dr. Bidell was awarded a 2009 Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology (FITT) Award to develop an on-line hybrid version of COCO 702 (Counseling Theories).

Research

Dr. Bidell’s research focuses on counselor education and training with respect to multicultural and sexual orientation counselor competencies as well as the role of technology in counselor preparation.  He received two PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Awards to fund his research involving diversity and counselor education.  Dr. Bidell developed the Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale/SOCCS (Bidell, 2005).  The SOCCS is a psychometrically valid and reliable instrument that counselor educators and supervisors can use to assess attitude, skill, and knowledge competencies of counselors concerning Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual clients.  Dr. Bidell also conducts research examining at-risk and minority youth in schools.  Specifically, he has published articles exploring the relationship between disruptive classroom behaviors and youth self-concept as well as school-based drug/alcohol/tobacco prevention programs.  Currently, Dr. Bidell is studying ways school counselors can become social justice advocates for LGBT youth by creating safer school climates.  Dr. Bidell has presented with students at regional and national counseling conferences as well as included students in his research and publication work.

Publications

Bidell, M. P. (in press). Can Nature Heal? The impact of adventure based counseling for Gay/Bisexual men living with HIV/AIDS. Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation.

Bidell, M. P. (in press). Gay-straight alliances: A powerful and innovative way for teacher educators and teachers to support minority sexual orientation and gender identity students. In A. Wilson (Ed.), Voices of LGBTQ students and teachers: Changing the culture of schooling. Boulder, CO: Paradigm     Publishers.

Bidell, M. P., & Deacon, R. E. (2010). School counselors connecting the dots between disruptive classroom behavior and youth self-concept. Journal of School Counseling, 8(9). Retrieved from http://www.jsc.montana.edu/articles/v8n9.pdf

Bidell, M. P. (2007). Gay straight alliances. In G. L. Anderson & K. Herr (Series Eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (pp. 2:607). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bidell, M. P., Ragen, J. K., Broach, C. & Carillo, E. (2007). First impressions: A multicultural content analysis of professional psychology program Web sites. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 1, 204–214. doi: 10.1037/1931-3918.s.2.112

Bidell, M. P. (2005). The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale: Assessing attitudes, skills, and knowledge of counselors working with Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual clients. Counselor Education and Supervision, 44(4). 267–279.

Bidell, M. P., Turner, J. A., & Casas, J. M. (2002). First impressions count: Ethnic/Racial and Lesbian/Gay/ Bisexual content of professional psychology application materials. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33, 97–103. doi: 10.1037/0735-7028.33.1.97

Bidell, M. P. & Buckley, M. A. (2002). Youth tobacco prevention. In J. R. Miller, R. M. Lerner, & L. B. Schiamberg (Series Eds.), Human ecology: Vol. 2. An encyclopedia of children, families, communities, and environments (pp. 682-684). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.

Bidell, M. P., Furlong, M. J., Dunn, D. M., & Koegler, J. E. (2000).  A case study of attempts to enact self-service tobacco display ordinances: A tale of three communities. Tobacco Control, 9(1), 71–77.